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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/wo...html?ref=world

I sure don't understand it. I suspect that there's some reluctance to "coordinate" these missions with the Afghans, as Karzai suggests. He doesn't suggest why, though.

Still, if true, we'd best figure out damn fast how we didn't have eyeballs on the target area sufficient to avoid this calamity. Observing airstrikes is not like artillery. You can usually confirm expended ordnance far easier- bigger, less of it, etc...But who really knows? Time of day, weather, circumstances, etc.

Unless it was our Apache boys from Shek's article firing cannon and rockets. It seems that they made some strafing runs on targets in a river w/ Burqas on. If so, one of many questions to ask them might be, "What sort of benefit do you attain by flying lower than the Brits?"

Let's hope that we find out the truth here and that, among other things, it WASN'T the aforementioned Apache crews. At the least, it seems something untoward has happened and, once again, we don't seem to be on top of it.

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